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PROFILE: netwealth head of advice Simon Micallef

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... worldA game, he admits to Laura Millan that Australia will get its financial services right first, before it wins the World Cup. The son of a Maltese family that immigrated to Australia after World War II, Micallef was attracted to financial planning ...

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... analogy may make this easier understood: "Securing the recovery is like making it through the qualifying rounds of the World Cup. That is an achievement, not the ultimate goal." "The real tournament is just beginning and its prize is a strong, sustained ...

Professor proposes cheap longevity insurance design

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
A Canadian finance professor has come up with a way of making lifetime annuities affordable by designing them so they only pay out if the market does badly. According to Moshe A. Milevsky of York University, Toronto, while lifetime and deferred lifetime ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
"There's a reason for the sunshinin' sky There's a reason why I'm feeling so high Must be the season when that love light shines all around us..." - Bellamy Brothers Quite fitting don't you think? Equity markets everywhere felt the 'love' on the week ...

Debt, deficit, now deflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... Downer EDI has its annual general meeting scheduled. In Australia, the market on Tuesday enjoyed a strong finish on Melbourne Cup day, with the big miners leading the way. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 41.5 points, or 0.77 per cent, at 5,432. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
... car sales website Autohome on the New York Stock Exchange. Trading volumes are thinner than usual because of the Melbourne Cup, while most economists expect the Reserve Bank of Australia will leave the cash rate unchanged at 2.5 per cent when it announces ...

RBA and Melbourne Cup two-fecta

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013
Punters could enjoy a two-fecta today - the day when the Melbourne Cup meets with the RBA interest rate announcement - should the odds in their favour go. Odds-on are for the RBA to stay (on monetary policy) and Fioreno to win (the Cup). On the surface ...

The madness of crowds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013

Lotsa data but no game change (yet)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... water, we'll have to wait for Thursday when the official employment numbers are released before we drink. Drink from the RBA cup of more rate cuts, that is. The latest odds are for a 45% chance of an August trim. While we slept, there was good and bad ...